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Bodybuilding
Martin Myrone
其他書名
Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810
出版Yale University Press, 2005-01-01
主題Health & Fitness / Exercise / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN97803001100500300110057
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PvrFqw1YEToC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figures--from Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blake--and influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), the War of American Independence (1775-83) and the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars (1789-1815), Bodybuilding places the visual representation of the hero at the heart of a series of narratives about social and economic change, gender identity, and the transformation of cultural value on the eve of modernity. The book offers a vivid image of a critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes a new framework for the study of late-eighteenth-century art and gender.